"The other thing is that doctors test only the most common estrogen level. There are three kinds of estrogen in a woman but they don't test the other two because they are so rare; mine was the third kind of estrogen"
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The specific intent is advocacy through anecdote. Osmond frames her experience as a cautionary tale about default settings in women’s healthcare: if you don’t fit the template, you can be missed. The subtext isn’t just “test more things.” It’s “listen longer.” When she says there are “three kinds of estrogen,” she’s also pointing to how often women are asked to compress complex symptoms into something legible to a rushed system. “Rare” becomes a gatekeeping word: a justification for not looking, a reason patients get told it’s stress, aging, mood.
Culturally, this sits in a celebrity-health lineage where fame becomes a megaphone for what would otherwise be dismissed as one person’s bad luck. Osmond’s credibility doesn’t come from credentials; it comes from narrative authority - the insistence that the outlier still counts, and that protocols built for the average body can fail the real one.
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Osmond, Marie. (2026, January 16). The other thing is that doctors test only the most common estrogen level. There are three kinds of estrogen in a woman but they don't test the other two because they are so rare; mine was the third kind of estrogen. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-other-thing-is-that-doctors-test-only-the-93561/
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Osmond, Marie. "The other thing is that doctors test only the most common estrogen level. There are three kinds of estrogen in a woman but they don't test the other two because they are so rare; mine was the third kind of estrogen." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-other-thing-is-that-doctors-test-only-the-93561/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"The other thing is that doctors test only the most common estrogen level. There are three kinds of estrogen in a woman but they don't test the other two because they are so rare; mine was the third kind of estrogen." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-other-thing-is-that-doctors-test-only-the-93561/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.




